SafariSpeed2.1.1

Overview

SafariSpeed applies optimizations to Safari that will help to speed up your browsing experience and modifies Safari in other useful ways.

SafariSpeed allows you to easily remove the page loading delay that was built in to Safari. This delay prevents pages from being displayed until a set amount of time passes. By removing this delay, SafariSpeed will allow pages to be displayed as fast as your connection or cache can deliver them.

SafariSpeed also allows you to disable favorite icons - the small pictures displayed next to bookmarks and in your address bar. As you visit websites, Safari "collects" these little icons and stores them. Over time, as this "collection" grows, Safari's habit of searching through all of these icons for the correct one can slow down your browsing. These icons also eat unnecessary disk space.

SafariSpeed can also disable Safari's cache for a further performance boost.

In addition to these performance enhancements, SafariSpeed can be used to toggle PDF support and the debug menu and to switch between Safari's brushed metal and Aqua interfaces.

If you find this application useful, please register it for a low fee of $8.

Cleaning out old apps when I tried to erase the Safari favicons with SafariSpeed 1.3 (been in there a long time) and it did not work. Tried again. Nothing. Don't thinkI'll spend $8.00 for the updated version to see if that works. Have Safari 3.1.

I installed this software yesterday to see what the hype was all about.
Ever since then, safari can no longer find google, myspace and a bunch of other websites.
When I try to delete it, I'm told that I don't have sufficient permission to do so.
If anyone has any tips or ideas as to what I've done wrong could you please email me at danstheman2watch@hotmail.com (lame email address, I know)?
Many thanks,
Dan

From Safari's developer regarding this app:
I just saw this article on Digg about how to “speed up Safari” by reducing the “page load delay” in preferences. In the comments are many testimonials like “Oh my gosh! Safari is so much faster now!” This just goes to prove how inaccurate people's powers of perception are when it comes to measuring the performance of browsers. I say this because the preference in question is dead and does absolutely nothing in Safari 1.3 and Safari 2.0.

Sorry, but this is hilarious.
The pref to change this so called delay is dead since Safari 1.3 and it was the *maximum* delay, not the minimum. People seeing a big difference should definitely stop smoking.
According to the Safari dev, disabling the cache should be useless too.
Anyway, charging for features so easy to do for free is a bit silly.
If you want to kill favicons, change the look and *a lot* more, check SafariStand.

The cache disabling feature seems silly to me. The whole point of a cache is to increase performance, therefore disabling the cache will slow things down, if anything.
Nobody is going to pay $8 for this.

While test driving SafariSpeed 2.0, I came across the following error message while attempting to change the Brushed Metal look in the Interface settings.
AppleScript Error
unzip: cannot find or open /Volumes/SafariSpeed/Volumes/SafariSpeed.zip or /Volumes/SafariSpeed.ZIP. (9)
Clicking on either button under Interface launched Safari, then gave me a dialog window to close Safari, followed by the above error message.
I had no problems with disabling the lag time. It made my Safari 2.0.4 incredibly faster than it had been.
For the record I'm on an Intel iMac running Tiger 10.4.8 and Safari 2.0.4

Just ran this app and WOW! Safari had slowed down terribly for me. Took about a minute to open and got the spinning ball whenever I opened any page.
I thought there was a problem with my computer. Safari now opens instantly and pages load very fast. I had actually stopped using my laptop and moved to another computer as Safari was just too slow and I won't use IE.
Very small app that apparently does something and does it quite well.

I can't notice any difference, maybe because I'm on a fast connection... But the MacUpdate favicon is still in my address bar though... Isn't it supposed to be gone if the favicon cash is disabled? Ho well... Safari was really fast already anyway so no big deal I guess :)

I've always been very skeptical of so-called Internet Optimizers, as in my experience they've rarely done anything at all, and in cases they did something actually slowed down my computer with unecessary junky 'optimizers'.
The only reason I downloaded this application was because it was free, too often fake Optimizers cost money, and I thought "Well, I have nothing to lose." Boy was I surprised, not only did it speed up Safari's rendering, it also cut down on Safari's HD accessing and memory use since it allowed me to dump the cache of site icons! I often run Bit Torrent cocurrently with my web browsing - and it's slow like dial up. With SafariSpeed, I can hardly tell Azureus is greedily gobbling 100k a second from my DSL.

This is probably the greatest app ive seen for a web browser yet! Camino has the same problem with loading time and now that you made it so safari doesnt have it i can finnaly use safari and its FAST as ever. Nice job...thanks.

Wow! This app really notched up a gear on Safari! I usually have to wait for a moment before I download pages from CNN/Money and the Morning Call pages, but after I ran SafariSpeed, it just started showing the whole page instead of waiting for all those lil bitsy pieces from the sidebars/advertisements to load up.
Excellent stuff!

Hi, all,
Sorry about the mix-up with the version! It seems that I uploaded the wrong file to my server.
It should all be fixed now. I apologize for the inconvenience!
Thanks,
Alex Warofka
Developer, ScifienceStudios

Not sure if its really needed on Tige as Safari is pretty fast as it is. Version 2.0 of Safari is drastically faster than previous versions.
If anyone (or the developer) can confirm the need for this, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

I'm getting the following error while clicking the speed optimization button:
AppleScript Error
sh: line 1: defaults: command not found (127)
I'm running OS X 10.3.7 and haven't altered Safari 1.2.4 in any way, or even moved it from its default location. I've tried running SafariSpeed 1.2.1 in both the default Applications folder and my user one. No go for both. Any ideas?
PS: For what it's worth I was able to remove the favicons successfully.

I noticed the rest of my machine slowed down a touch, when I looked at the activity monitor, the CPU was pegged the whole time Safari was active. I wasn't even loading pages. CPU activity went back to normal when I unloaded the the speedup.

I dont get it, whey are you guys moaning, it does what it says it does...and it's free!
I'd rather have an app/script that does this than go to the terminal myself. Lay of this developer, he's not charging anything...!

This is a AppleScript that calls a shell-script.
You can do it from the Terminal
( to test the "delay-factor"... )
Terminal:
Delay-On:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay 1.00
Delay-Off:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay 0.000001
That's what I found in the .app

Nice!
Safari works great and the "new" feature with the fav.icons is best...
this things should be "native" in Safari...(hey Apple guys, pay some millions to this lonely developer...) and make Safari better!
usefull app!

Cheap hack that actually seems to make Safari slower in my case (Safari 1.2.3) Also seems to cause Safari to make more disc activity all the time when before it was completely silent.
I reset it back to defaults but I still think the disc activity is happening.
I don't know what it is doing but is complete crud.

Great!
You will notice safari's delay when you reload a page, keep doing it on the same page and you will see the delay each time before safari reloads the page.
With safarispeed installed it completely removes this delay!
It's small little programs like this that make computing so much better!

Here's a tip to make Safari load faster:
Open /~/Library/Safari/ and look for the folder named Icons. Open that, and delete everything in the folder. Then, get info on the Icons folder, and change the permissions to Read Only. This will prevent Safari from saving favicons (the little icons in the address bar), and, for some reason, greatly improves startup speed. I noticed a difference of about five to ten seconds on my Sawtooth G4/400.

Surely this just changes the APARRANT page load speed, NOT the actual load speed. Pages will begin to be rendered faster but will not finish loading any quicker, so you will see some content, but it might get moved around while you are trying to read it.
I coudl be mistaken but for an expert view, go here: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/ to read about how Safari loads pages.

This does seem to help a bit, but not dramatically (I have a fast computer and a cable ISP). I am writing this hoping the author will read what I have to say. First, this might be improved by an Undo option. Second, have you considered writing a similar utility for OmniWeb?

Does seem a little faster. But all it does is run the following command in the Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay 0.0001
They could just post that command at MacOSXHints, and then they wouldn't have to ask for donations for distribution costs.